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In November 2015, the Coweeta LTER began a collaboration with the Bent Creek Experimental Forest by establishing three environmental sensor stations to monitor soil moisture, soil temperature, and air temperature in ridge, side-slope, and cove locations. Bent Creek Experimental Forest is part of the USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station and is located in Asheville, NC. Bent Creek is the oldest experimental forest in the East, established in 1925 to study rehabilitation of cutover, degraded forests. Research in this 5,500 acre forest has expanded to study the ecology and productiv

We are partnering with LTLT, Southern Appalachian Raptor Research program, and Balsam Mountain Trust to host a "Migration Celebration" at LTLT's Tessentee Bottomland Preserve this Saturday, October 10th. From 9-11am we will be catching and banding migrating songbirds and from 11am - 1pm I'll be leading a Monarch tagging/butterfly catching and release event.